This Working-Day World

Women's Lives and Culture(s) in Britain 1914-1945
Herausgeber: Oldfield, Sybil

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British womenâ s lives in the period 1914â 45. The volume describes womenâ s activities in many different areas, ranging from the weekly wash to the rescue of child refugees.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Library Editions: Women and Work
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781032301730
• ISBN-10: 1032301732
• Artikelnr.: 69703322

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I: Social History
1. The Weekly Wash
2. A 'Trade Union for Married Women': The Women's Co-operative Guild 1914-1920
3. The Women's Institute Movement - The Acceptable Face of Feminism?
4. A Woman's Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars
5. The Culture of Femininity in Women's Teacher Training Colleges 1914-1945
6. The Diary of Doreen Bates: Single Parenthood and the Civil Service
Section II: Political History
7. Gendering Patriotism: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and World War One
8. England's Cassandras in World War One
9. Women in the British Union of Fascists
1932-1940
10. British Feminists and Anti-Fascism in the 1930s
11. Working with the 'Kindertransports'
12. An Austrian Refugee in Wartime Manchester
Section III: Cultural History
13. 'A Fair Field and No Favour': Women Artists Working in Britain Between the Wars
14. British Women Surrealists - Deviants from Deviance?
15. Hilda Matheson and the BBC
1926-1940
16. 'Nothing is Impracticable for a Single
Middle-Aged Woman with an Income of her Own': The Spinster in Women's Fiction of the 1920s
17. Chloe
Olivia
Isabel
Letitia
Harriette
Honour
and Many More: Women in Medicine and Biomedical Science 1914-1945
Notes on Contributors
Appendix: Archive Resources for Research on 20th Century British Women
Index.